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That last part is something to keep in mind. Quarterbacks, injured or not, are always going to be targeted by defenses and, many times, they are going to be hit by those defenses. Roethlisberger might have felt like the 49ers went too far, but he was a target every time he took the field last season and he will be a target every time he takes the field this season.

Why do pro football talk writers always feel the need to editorialize to us? Once they start doing that it always makes me wonder whether the story started with the facts and ended in editorializing or did the story start with the writer's opinion and end in only the supporting facts being reported.

Even if Bill Belichick was getting an atomic wedgie, his face would look exactly the same.